Kerala PSC High School Assistant English Syllabus 2025 & Exam Pattern PDF

The Kerala PSC High School Assistant English Notification 2025 is out, and it’s time to start your preparation. The official syllabus has been released, and we’ve provided the updated syllabus for 2025 in this article. Use it as a guide to prepare effectively and stay ahead in the exam. Download the syllabus now!

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Kerala PSC HSA English Syllabus & Exam Pattern 2025 PDF

Get ready for the Kerala PSC High School Assistant English Exam 2025 with our detailed syllabus and exam pattern. The official syllabus has now been released, and we’ve included the updated syllabus and exam structure to help guide your preparation. Download the Kerala PSC HSA English Syllabus & Exam Pattern 2025 PDF now!

Kerala PSC HSA English Exam Pattern 2025

Kerala PSC HSA English Syllabus and Exam Pattern provides essential details about the structure and marking scheme of the exam. Understanding the pattern is key to effective preparation. Go through the HSA English Exam Pattern now!

he Kerala PSC High School Assistant (HSA) English Exam 2025 will be conducted offline in an objective-type format. The exam consists of 100 questions, with each correct answer earning 1 mark. The total duration of the exam is 1 hour and 30 minutes. Here’s the detailed exam pattern:

• Part I: General Knowledge, Current Affairs, Renaissance in Kerala – 15 Marks
• Part II: Teaching Methodology – 5 Marks
• Part III: Subject-specific (English) – 80 Marks

The total marks for the exam are 100, and candidates must complete it within 90 minutes.

Kerala PSC HSA English Syllabus 2025: Detailed

Prepare for the Kerala PSC High School Assistant (HSA) English Exam 2025 with the latest syllabus. This guide covers all the key topics you need to focus on, from General Knowledge and Teaching Methodology to Subject-specific content.

PART I (15 Marks)

Module I: Renaissance and Freedom Movement

Module II: General Knowledge and Current Affairs

PART II (5 Marks)

Module III: Methodology of Teaching the Subject

• History and conceptual development: Need and significance, meaning, nature, and scope of the subject.
• Correlation with other subjects and real-life situations.
• Aims, objectives, and values of teaching: Taxonomy of Educational Objectives—both old and revised.
• Pedagogic analysis: Need, significance, and principles.
• Planning of instruction at the secondary level: Need and importance. Psychological bases of teaching the subject, including implications of Piaget, Bruner, Gagne, Vygotsky, Ausubel, and Gardner—addressing individual differences, motivation, and maxims of teaching.
• Methods and strategies for teaching the subject: Models of teaching and techniques for individualizing instruction.
• Curriculum – Definition, Principles, Modern trends and organizational approaches, Curriculum reforms – NCF/KCF.
• Instructional resources- Laboratory, Library, Club, Museum- Visual and Audio-Visual aids – Community based resources – e-resources – Text book, Work book and Hand book.
• Assessment; Evaluation- Concepts, Purpose, Types, Principles, Modern techniques – CCE and Grading- Tools and techniques – Qualities of a good test – Types of test items- Evaluation of projects, Seminars and Assignments – Achievement test, Diagnostic test – Construction, Characteristics, interpretation and remediation.
• Teacher – Qualities and Competencies – different roles – Personal Qualities – Essential teaching skills – Microteaching – Action research.

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PART III (80 Marks)

Module 1: Poetry

• Shakespeare: Sonnet 121
• Donne: A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
• Milton: On His Blindness
• Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
• Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey
• Shelley: To a Skylark
• Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn
• Tennyson: Ulysses
• Browning: My Last Duchess
• Arnold: Dover Beach
• W.B. Yeats: A Prayer for My Daughter
• Sylvia Plath: Daddy
• Tagore: Where the Mind Is Without Fear
• Nissim Ezekiel: Night of the Scorpion
• Kamala Das: An Introduction
• A.K. Ramanujan: Obituary
• Robert Frost: Home Burial
• Emily Dickinson: Because I Could Not Stop for Death
• Wole Soyinka: A Telephone Conversation
• Meena Alexander: House of a Thousand Doors
• Margaret Atwood: This Is a Photograph of Me
• David Diop: Africa
• Jack Davis: Aboriginal Australia

Module 2: Drama

• Shakespeare: Macbeth
• Sheridan: School for Scandal
• Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest
• Ibsen: A Doll’s House
• Shaw: Pygmalion
• J.M. Synge: Riders to the Sea
• Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot
• Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman
• Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie
• Girish Karnad: Nagamandala

Module 3: Prose and Fiction

• Francis Bacon: Of Studies
• Steele: The Trumpet Club
• A.G. Gardiner: On the Rule of the Road
• E.M. Forster: On Tolerance
• Bertrand Russell: Functions of a Teacher
• Dr. Radhakrishnan: Humanities vs Science
• Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
• George Orwell: Animal Farm
• Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea
• Shashi Deshpande: Roots and Shadows
• Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things
• Toni Morrison: The Bluest Eye

Module 4: Literary Criticism/Terms

1. Rasa
2. Dhwani
3. Aristotle: Poetics
4. Wordsworth: Preface to Lyrical Ballads
5. Coleridge: Biographia Literaria (Chapter 14)
6. Arnold: Study of Poetry
7. Eliot: Tradition and the Individual Talent
8. Saussure: Nature of the Linguistic Sign
9. Showalter: Towards a Feminist Poetics

Terms and Movements

• Classicism, Neo-Classicism, Romanticism, Humanism, Realism, Magical Realism, Naturalism, Symbolism, Russian Formalism, Marxism, Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, Deconstruction, Psychoanalytical Criticism, Feminism, Post-Colonialism, Modernism, and Post-Modernism

Module 5: Linguistics, Phonetics, and History of Language

1. Phonology
2. Morphology
3. Syntax
4. Semantics
5. Langue and Parole; Competence and Performance
6. Organs of Speech
7. Classification of Speech Sounds
8. Stress, Rhythm, Intonation
9. Transcription
10. Indo-European Family of Languages
11. Loan Words: Latin, Scandinavian, French, Indian
12. Englishes: American, Australian, Indian, and African

Module 6: Modern English Usage

1. Sentence Correction
2. Vocabulary
3. Synonyms and Antonyms
4. Give One Word
5. Commonly Confused Words
6. Language Functions (e.g., agreeing, complaining, etc.)
7. Appropriate Word Order
8. Appropriate Sentence Order
9. Idioms
10. Passage for Comprehension

Module 7: Basic Grammar

1. Article
2. Prepositions
3. Clauses
4. Tenses
5. Phrasal Verbs
6. Conjunctions
7. Reported Speech
8. Voice
9. Question Tags
10. Transformation of Sentences

Module 8: Teaching of English

1. Schools: Behaviourism, Cognitivism, Constructivism
2. Skills and Subskills of Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing
3. Language Acquisition and Learning: Krashen
4. Methods and Approaches: Grammar Translation; Audio-lingual; Direct Method; Structural-Oral-Situational Approach; Communicative Approach; Bilingual Method; Humanistic Approaches
5. Use of AV Aids and ICT
6. Teaching of Prose, Poetry, and Grammar
7. Testing and Evaluation
8. Learner Types
9. Teaching Learners with Disability
10. NCF, KCF on Teaching of English

How to Download Kerala PSC HSA English Syllabus 2025 PDF

To download the Kerala PSC HSA English Syllabus, follow these simple steps:

1. Visit the Kerala PSC Official Homepage.
2. Navigate to the Recruitment section.
3. Under the Recruitment section, click on Post Wise Syllabus.
4. Locate the HSA English syllabus and click on the download link.
5. Download the syllabus PDF for your reference.